 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...  Soul prosperity, or The closet companion - Page 42by John Dennant - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 574 pages
...Scriptures 1 Not at all. The Scriptures take notice of no such interval ; but plainly enough deny it : " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5 : 8. No sooner parted from the body, than present with... | |
 | John Conant - 1703 - 546 pages
...£}od, an Houfe not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens. So again in the 6, 7, and 8th verfes. We are always confident, knowing that while we. are at Home in. the Body, we are abfent from the Lord 5 ( for we walk by Faith and not by Sight ) We are confident I fay, and... | |
 | John Barclay - 1776 - 516 pages
...of this tabernacle diflblved, that we may be clothed upon with our houfe from heaven ; and in this we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are abfent from the Lord. And we wait for the Lord from heaven.' Laftly, if you infift upon 2 Pet.... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1786 - 454 pages
...was , and the fpirit Jhall return unit God, unlit gave it. Ecclef. xii. 7.— iii. 20. 21. (n) #"> are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are abfent from tl.<ğ Lord; (for we walk by faith, not by fight) we are confident I fay, and willing... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : 7 ( For we walk by faith, not by sight :) 8 We are confident^ I say, and willing rather to' be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...eternal in the heavens. — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2. To induce christians to diligence in seeking this assurance,... | |
 | Universalism - 1804 - 462 pages
...Christians of that age : " Therefore, we. are always confident, knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from. the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present wkh the Lord." 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. — But I need not inform persons of common... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - Booksellers and bookselling - 1804 - 416 pages
...we ?.re always confident, knowing, that whilst we ;:re at home in the body, we are absent from ihe Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to Le present with the Lord." 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. — But I need not inform persons of common... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - Spiritual life - 1804 - 320 pages
...we are at home " in the body, we are absent from the " Lord : for we walk by faith, not by " sight. We are confident, I say, and " willing rather to be absent from the " body, and to be present with the " Lord1." Thus grace, inwrought in our souls by the Holy Ghost,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Dissenters, Religious - 1808 - 652 pages
...preached by Mr. Nathaniel Taylor, his assistant, on 2 Cor. SA LTERSMJ A LL. English Pmbyterian. v. 8. For we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present rcith the Lord. Mr. Mayo left two sons in the ministry; one a Conformist,... | |
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